WOLF. 
increased to such a degree as to become the 
cbje6l of royal attention ; and, accordingly, 
Edward I. issued out his mandate to Peter 
Corbet, to superintend, and assist in, their 
compleat destrudlion. From England and 
Wales they are supposed to have been extir- 
pated about five hundred years ; and the last 
Wolf known to have been killed in any part 
of the island of Great Britain, was destroyed 
in 1680, by the famous Sir Ewen Cameron, 
in Scotland, according to ihe tradition of that 
■country. 
BuiFon, however, with more of nationalitv 
than might have been expe6led from a man of 
such enlarged research, appears unwilling to 
•admit that Great Britain has yet been able io 
free herself from these ravenous and fierce ani- 
mals, which still continue to baffie all the 
force and dexterity of France : and pertina- 
ciously, though ingeniously, maintains a be- 
lief, or would at least lead others to believe, in 
their present existence, even while he feels It 
necessary to acknowledge, that he has never 
asserted it as a positive fu£l. 
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